PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY

1. General

The operator of this website collects, processes and uses personal data of a user without further consent only to the extent that it is necessary for the establishment and execution of a contract and for billing purposes.

Personal data is individual information about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person (data subject).

In this respect, the collection of data means the acquisition of data by the data subject him/herself. In addition to storing and deleting, processing also means changing, blocking and transmitting personal data. Use is any use of personal data that is not processing. If necessary, inventory and traffic data of the customer may be passed on to companies associated with the operator of the website. The operator of this website is entitled to provide information to law enforcement agencies and courts for the purpose of criminal prosecution in accordance with the applicable legal provisions. The operator of this website may evaluate the customer’s inventory and traffic data for market research purposes or have them evaluated by third parties. The customer can object to this by contacting the data protection officer.

2. Inventory data

Inventory data is personal data that is required to establish or change the contractual relationship between the operator of this website and the user. This includes, among other things, the name and address, date of birth, telephone number, e-mail address and payment data of the user.

The operator of this website will only pass on inventory data to third parties if this is necessary for the provision of the service.

The operator of this website will only process and use the inventory data for the purposes of advertising, customer advice or market research if this is necessary and the user has consented to this. The user may revoke this consent in writing at any time.

The provision in §29 BDSG permits the businesslike collection, storage or modification of personal data for the purpose of transmission, in particular in connection with the activities of credit agencies. Credit agencies combine personal data originating from different sources and transmit them to third parties. The operator of this website is obliged to provide such credit agencies with the necessary data.

3. Traffic data

Traffic data is data that is collected, processed or used in the course of providing a telecommunications service. The operator of this website or a third party used by the operator of this website to provide the telecommunication services collects traffic data in order to enable the use of these services and to be able to invoice the respective user. As a rule, the date and time as well as the time zone of the beginning and end of use, the volume in bytes, the IP address and the type of telecommunication service used are recorded. The aforementioned data is stored for up to six months after the invoice has been sent, unless longer storage is provided for within the scope of the statistics functions activated by the user. As far as billing with other companies or with other service providers or legal regulations require, the operator of this website may use, store and transmit traffic data.

4. Right to information

Upon request, the operator of this website will inform the user in writing, taking into account the legal requirements, whether and what personal data is stored about him/her. For this purpose and for further questions regarding data protection, please contact the data protection officer.

5. Website tracking

This website partly uses so-called cookies. These serve to make the offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer and saved by your browser and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The cookies are also used for the remarketing technology of Google Inc. This technology allows users who have already visited this website and are interested in the offer to be addressed again by targeted advertising on the pages of the Google Partner Network. Provided that users have consented to their web and app browsing history being linked by Google to their Google account and information from their Google account being used to personalise ads, the remarketing function takes place across devices. To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google authenticated IDs of these users. This personal data is temporarily linked to the Google Analytics data in order to build target groups. Google users can adjust their ad settings under “My Account” or deactivate personalised ads.

You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your shortened IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]

In addition, Google Analytics collects reports on performance by demographic characteristics and interest.

6. Social Plugins

This website uses various features from the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google+. By default, no data is transmitted to these services when you visit our website. On some pages, after setting a checkmark at the corresponding plugin or clicking on a corresponding link at the respective platform, a transmission of data may take place according to the following conditions without the function (“Recommend”, “Tweet”, “+1”) itself being carried out.

7. YouTube

This website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy